US Patent Issued to OTI Lumionics on March 31 for "Method for patterning a coating on a surface and device including a patterned coating" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,244, issued on March 31, was assigned to OTI Lumionics Inc. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Method for patterning a coating on a surface and device including a patterned coating" was invented by Yi-Lu Chang (Scarborough, Canada), Qi Wang (North York, Canada), Michael Helander (Toronto), Jacky Qiu (Toronto), Zhibin Wang (Toronto) and Thomas Lever (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opto-electronic device includes: a first electrode; an organic layer disposed over the first electrode; a nucleation promoting coating disposed over the organic layer; a nucleation inhibiting coating covering a first region of the opto-electronic device; an...